Clancy Yeates
Westpac is pledging to cut the time and paperwork involved in assessing credit applications for its small business customers through a new online system, as it eyes a bigger slice of the market.

Clancy Yeates
The Reserve Bank has issued a fresh warning about the rising risk of a significant fall in house prices if "speculative demand" fuelled by cheap credit continues to drive the property market.

Paul Smith and Clancy Yeates
Corporate technology and governance experts say apparent bribery within the Commonwealth Bank's IT department raises questions for investors about the oversight of decision-making.

Clancy Yeates
Global credit rating agency Standard & Poor's says the major banks' financial position would be strengthened by David Murray's plan to require their mortgage books to be better capitalised.

Clancy Yeates
Commonwealth Bank and Macquarie Group executives will appear this week before a closed-door parliamentary hearing, where they are set to be quizzed on their dealings with the corporate regulator.

Clancy Yeates
National Australia Bank chief Andrew Thorburn has conceded there is a need for better processes to detect bad financial advice and inform customers who may be affected, after recent revelations of...